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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. (Truman Capote)
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there. View quote
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Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right. View quote
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But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes. View quote
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It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect. View quote
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I ought at least to have made corporal. But I never did. Know why? Because the sergeant we had was tough. Because I wouldn't roll over. Jesus, I hate that stuff. I can't stand it. Though-I don't know. Some queers I really liked. As long as they didn't try anything. The most worthwhile friend I ever had, really sensitive and intelligent, he turned out to be queer. View quote
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. View quote
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All literature is gossip. View quote
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. View quote
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. View quote
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I can see every monster as they come in. (Truman Capote)
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. View quote
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. View quote
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. View quote
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I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. View quote
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. View quote
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. View quote
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. View quote
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She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the garden's edge, as though he'd forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind. View quote
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She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part [...]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal. View quote
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In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. [...] However, even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune [...]. (Truman Capote)
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. View quote
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. View quote
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. View quote
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It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. View quote
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